In pictures: A look back at past winners of the Time Person of the Year

One of the biggest news events of 1938 took place on September 29, when
Neville Chamberlain, Premier Edouard Daladier of France, Benito Mussolini
and Hitler met in Munich to to redraw the map of Europe. But, according to
Time, “the dominating figure at Munich was the German host, Adolf Hitler”
who “had torn the Treaty of Versailles to shreds, rearmed Germany to the
teeth and had stolen Austria before the eyes of a horrified and apparently
impotent world.”